The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to... Comments: When the prose is stripped away, this book is fundamentally about orthodoxy vs.... Karen Armstrong writes just about everything with a dense (meant in the best... This autobiography is so touching and authentic in its honesty. Anyone who ever... I ran across Karen Armstrong while doing online research, watched part of her... This is one of the best books I have read in a while. Karen Armstrong's... Read More »

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